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OPPORTUNITY: Scalar Webinars

Jan

22

2015

The Alliance for Networking Visual Culture has announced the spring schedule of free webinars for learning Scalar, an open source multimodal publishing platform. Scalar enables authors to incorporate multimedia content from a variety of sources into their own content using a system of “paths” and “tags” to create digital publications: Paths are linear sequences of ...

JOB: English Literature and Digital Humanities Librarian, University of Notre Dame

Jan

22

2015

From the announcement (also available as a pdf): RESPONSIBILITIES: Serves as the primary liaison to faculty, students and researchers in the Department of English. S/he works closely with these scholars and others concerned with the study of English Literature to insure the Libraries have the resources and services needed for successful research and learning. In ...

JOB: Digital Scholarship Librarian, College of Wooster

Jan

22

2015

From the announcement: The College of Wooster Libraries seeks an innovative and service-oriented colleague to become our Digital Scholarship Librarian. This newly created faculty position reports to the Director of Libraries and provides leadership in creating, organizing, promoting, and curating digital materials. The librarian will play a key role in supporting our Open Access resolution, ...

Welcome, John Russell!

Jan

21

2015

We are pleased to welcome John Russell to the dh+lib editorial team as a Contributing Editor. John is the Scholarly Communications Librarian at the University of Oregon Libraries, where he teaches digital scholarship methods and tools to graduate students, collaborates with faculty on digital research projects, and advocates for open access through outreach, instruction, and ...

CFP: Open Repositories 2015

Dec

18

2014

The International Conference on Open Repositories will hold its tenth conference from 8-11 June 2015 in Indianapolis, Indiana. The program theme is “Looking Back, Moving Forward: Open Repositories at the Crossroads”: The organizers invite you to review the full call for proposals here: http://www.or2015.net/call-for-proposals/, and to submit your proposal here: https://www.conftool.com/or2015/ by January 30, 2015. There are ...

CFP: Texas Digital Humanities Conference

Dec

18

2014

The second annual Texas Digital Humanities Conference has issued a call for papers for its second annual conference, to be held April 9-11, 2015, in Arlington, Texas. As the call specifies: “This conference encourages submissions from a broad spectrum of communities: university and K-12 educators, graduate students, and undergrads; museum and archives professionals; library professionals; ...

JOB: Project Manager, UCLA

Dec

18

2014

From the announcement: Half the job will focus on the Digital Ephemera Project, a fascinating effort of the Digital Library Program to collect and organize tweets and other digital ephemera related to the Arab Spring and the Green Revolution. The other 50% will focus on projects to deliver innovative applications and services in the Library’s ...

POST: Big and Small Data in the Humanities

Dec

18

2014

The British Library has shared a recording and transcript of the 2014 British Library Labs Symposium keynote by Tim Hitchcock (University of Sussex), “Big and Small Data in the Humanities.” Hitchcock opens his keynote with praise for the British Library Labs project: There are any number of research council initiatives, European funding calls, and twitchy ...

RESOURCE: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Digital Preservation

Dec

18

2014

The International Conference on Digital Preservation has shared iPres 2014: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Digital Preservation under a CC BY 3.0 unported license. iPres 2014 was held October 6-10, in Melbourne, Australia. A preface to the proceedings stated that the conference “was structured around two key strands – research and innovative practice. The purpose ...

RESOURCE: Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities: Concepts, Models, and Experiments

Dec

18

2014

General Editors Rebecca Frost Davis (St. Edward’s University), Matthew K. Gold (CUNY), Katherine D. Harris (San Jose State University), and Jentery Sayers (University of Victoria) have announced Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities: Concepts, Models, and Experiments. The project is “an open-access, curated collection of downloadable, reusable, and remixable pedagogical resources for humanities scholars interested in the intersections ...

RESOURCE: JLSC Special Issue, Library Publishing

Dec

18

2014

The Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication has published a special issue: Library Publishing, featuring selected papers from the 2014 Library Publishing Forum and three practice articles. In their editorial, guest editors Stephanie Davis-Kahl (Illinois Wesleyan University) and Melanie Schlosser (Ohio State University) write: “The issue, in its entirety, provides a current picture of the range of programs ...